J. Thiele Building · Photo: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Miles has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Only 4% stay in Miles for work; outside it, San Angelo is the main destination (29%, 19 miles). 106 jobs are based in Miles, against 364 working residents. 3% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Miles stands out on work
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Miles is a place people come home to
There are 106 jobs based in Miles, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Miles has about 670 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of Miles works in San Angelo
107 working residents, 29%, have their main job in San Angelo, 19 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Miles itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 364 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The commute from Miles, by distance
About 41% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Miles quiets down on a workday
On a workday 350 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Miles on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Miles work
Where Miles clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Jobs in Miles: what the 106 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Miles, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 106. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Miles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Miles workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 530 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Miles: questions
What is the median household income in Miles?
$74,000 (±$32,104) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Miles?
15.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Miles?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Miles work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Angelo (29%, 19 mi), Ballinger (10%, 17 mi), Abilene (6%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Miles without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Miles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Miles
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.